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Memorial Walks & Bike Rides
Honor the victims. Mobilize for Safer Streets.
Educate Community on Traffic Safety.
www.SeattleGreenways.org Merlin Rainwater, Central Greenways
Cathy Tuttle, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
The “Classic” Memorial Walk
• Incident
• Contributing factors
• Memorial Event
• Community response
• Government response
• Ongoing needs
• Universal lessons
The Memorial checklist
1. Confirm incident
2. Initiate community outreach
3. Local government outreach
4. Engage family
5. Discuss logistics/inform media
6. Dialog w family, government, community
7. Do the Memorial event
8. Solutions Meetings
9. Follow up reviews and thanks
• Try to complete checklist between one and two weeks
Seattle Memorial Events 2013-14
• Wedgwood. Schulte family walking 4/1/13
• East Marginal Way. Lance David bicycle 5/7/13
• Georgetown. Surinderpaul Basra walking 5/21/13
• Rainier Valley. Trevon Holden walking 8/5/13
• Madison Park. Anon walking (hit by bicyclist) 8/31/13
• High Point. James St. Clair walking 12/31/13
• Wedgwood. Schulte Family 1 year anniversary 3/24/14
• Pinehurst. Sandhya Khadka walking 4/17/14
• First Hill. Rebecca Scollard walking 7/31/14
• Downtown. Sher Kung bicycle 9/5/14
Challenges in Planning Memorials
• Staying sensitive to the death
• Getting accurate, timely information
• Which deaths should be memorialized?
Rebecca Scollard
Walking-Truck driver hit & run
Be sensitive
• Participation of advocacy groups
• Victim blaming
• Looking for clear answers
• Disproportionate impact on poor / people of color
• Asking for cultural change
• Language of traffic violence
Traffic is a Public Health Menace. Cyclist and pedestrian fatality rates
and nonfatal injury rates in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, the United
Kingdom, and the United States, 2004–2009. John Pucher slide.